Introducing Work Group Chair Elections: Education Work Group
The OpenChain Project has always had a strong focus on sustainability. As the maintainer of two industry standards, and the facilitator of a large supply chain community, our strategic position has always been to look at multi-year horizons.
As part of this, we are aware of the need to ensure our project reflects how people and activities adjust their priorities over time. A key example is the question it how we will address continuity in our work groups as our initial chairpeople reach the natural end of their tenure. The answer is straightforward (as with most things in this project). We will introduce elections to allow chairs to rotate in a manner that is predictable and accessible. To begin this process, we will see a transition with our Education Work Group. Balakrisha, after a stellar period of leading the group, has expressed a desire to allow another to carry the leadership torch as the next phase of project reference and training material is developed. This coincides nearly with some work we have been doing to adjust our Outreach Work Group into the more formal Outreach committee outlined in our charter, and the question of how to direct related volunteer energy and activity. Nathan, chair of Outreach, is stepping forward as a candidate for Education Work Group. If you wish to also step forward for this position and trigger an election, please feel free to do so before October 25th. If there are no other contenders, Nathan will formally become chair of the Education Work Group with a one year term. He may be re-elected in the next cycle in the same manner as this time. Throughout this quarter and into 2023 we will gradually introduce more elections, and by 2H 2023 all the primary OpenChain work groups should have completed the introduction of chair elections. Regards Shane Shane Coughlan OpenChain General Manager +818040358083 Book a meeting: https://meetings.hubspot.com/scoughlan |
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This is a note to confirm that Nathan has formally been elected Chair of the Education Work Group as per the process outlined below. From November onward he will be leading our work around developing and delivering best in class reference material to support a trusted supply chain.
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On Oct 14, 2022, at 21:00, Shane Coughlan <scoughlan@...> wrote: |
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Nathan Kumagai
Hi everyone – Thank you all and thanks to Balakrishna. I look forward to meeting and working with many of you over the coming year. The path to onboarding to OpenChain can be a challenge – especially if you need to create resources from scratch to support your organization or team. The supporting material created by the education team and the community has paved the way for many of our new members, and it’s so important now that we’re reaching new industries. It’s an exciting time to be part of this project!
Nathan Kumagai nathank@... / https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-kumagai-00229a1b/ From: Shane Coughlan <scoughlan@...>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2022 10:49 AM To: OpenChain Main <main@...> Cc: OpenChain Education <education@...>; Nathan Kumagai <nathank@...> Subject: Re: Introducing Work Group Chair Elections: Education Work Group This is a note to confirm that Nathan has formally been elected Chair of the Education Work Group as per the process outlined below. From November onward he will be leading our work around developing and delivering best in class reference
material to support a trusted supply chain.
> On Oct 14, 2022, at 21:00, Shane Coughlan <scoughlan@...> wrote: > > The OpenChain Project has always had a strong focus on sustainability. As the maintainer of two industry standards, and the facilitator of a large supply chain community, our strategic position has always been to look at multi-year horizons. > > As part of this, we are aware of the need to ensure our project reflects how people and activities adjust their priorities over time. A key example is the question it how we will address continuity in our work groups as our initial chairpeople reach the natural end of their tenure. > > The answer is straightforward (as with most things in this project). We will introduce elections to allow chairs to rotate in a manner that is predictable and accessible. > > To begin this process, we will see a transition with our Education Work Group. Balakrisha, after a stellar period of leading the group, has expressed a desire to allow another to carry the leadership torch as the next phase of project reference and training material is developed. This coincides nearly with some work we have been doing to adjust our Outreach Work Group into the more formal Outreach committee outlined in our charter, and the question of how to direct related volunteer energy and activity. > > Nathan, chair of Outreach, is stepping forward as a candidate for Education Work Group. If you wish to also step forward for this position and trigger an election, please feel free to do so before October 25th. If there are no other contenders, Nathan will formally become chair of the Education Work Group with a one year term. He may be re-elected in the next cycle in the same manner as this time. > > Throughout this quarter and into 2023 we will gradually introduce more elections, and by 2H 2023 all the primary OpenChain work groups should have completed the introduction of chair elections. > > Regards > > Shane > > Shane Coughlan > OpenChain General Manager > +818040358083 > Book a meeting: > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeetings.hubspot.com%2Fscoughlan&data=05%7C01%7C%7C998255f1c97f4d59666d08dabb685400%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638028354002724176%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=AViXGGkUBhcZbvP4t1YMMFy%2F1PJmkOlAiDsHwGHypFg%3D&reserved=0 |
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Balakrishna Mukundaraj
Congratulations Nathan :) looking forward to working with you :) All the best. Thanks and Regards, Balakrishna On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 10:59, Nathan Kumagai <nathank@...> wrote:
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Nathan, please accept my formal congratulations on being elected Chair of the Education Work Group. And, of course, a big thank you to Bakakrishna for his excellent work as previous chair. We have been very fortunately to oversee a period of exceptional knowledge-sharing. There is a lot left to do, but we are entering 2023 from a good space.
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On Nov 1, 2022, at 6:28, Nathan Kumagai <nathank@...> wrote: |
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Dear Nathan,
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My congratulations and best wishes for the future with your new post! Sebastian On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 05:28:56AM +0000, Nathan Kumagai wrote:
Hi everyone – |
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